• COVID-19 has forced big changes in the way lessons are delivered.
  • But education worldwide needs an even more radical rethink.
  • Science, technology, engineering and maths are crucial to our future.

COVID-19 has forced more than 1 billion students and youth out of school, triggering the world’s biggest educational technology (edtech) implementation in history, almost overnight. Schools and universities are scrambling to redesign their teaching and learning to allow for students of all ages to study from home. While this raises huge practical and logistic issues for students, teachers and parents (especially women), it opens up a world of opportunities to reimagine what learning looks like in the 21st century.

 

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Written by

Marga Gual Soler, Founder of SciDipGLOBAL, molecular biologist, advisor to the EU Science Diplomacy Cluster,

Komal Dadlani, Biochemist and ed-tech entrepreneur. CEO/Co-founder at Lab4U,

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/science-education-reset-stem-technology/